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2025 Global Program
 
8:00 - 8:50 CET
Sponsored symposium | Siemens Healthineers AG

NAEOTOM Alpha Class Face-off: A battle of the best Photon-counting cases!
Speakers: Balint Szilveszter, MD, PhD; Ricardo Budde, MD, PhD, FSCCT and Milan Vecsey-Nagy, MD, PhD
Moderator: Pal Maurovich-Horvat, MD, PhD, MPH, FSCCT

 
9:00 - 10:10 HKT
Inaugural Session | Chair: Ming-Yen NG, MBBS, FSCCT
9:00 - 9:10 | Welcome & Introduction | Ming-Yen Ng, MBBS, FSCCT & Kelley Branch, MD, FSCCT
9:10 - 9:20 | SCCT presidential address | Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, MSCCT
9:20 - 9:45 | Current state of cardiac CT | Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD, MCR, MSCCT
9:40 - 10:00 | Top 10 papers of 2025/2026 | Ivana Isgum, PhD
10:00 - 10:10 | Discussion Q & A | Armin Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH, MSCCT
 
10:30 - 11:10 CET
Coffee break and poster viewing in Exhibit Hall
 
11:10 - 12:40 CET
Coronary CTA in clinical decision making | Chairs: Ibrahim Danad, MD, PhD and Ronen Rubinshtein, MD, MSCCT
11:10 - 11:25 | Patient selection & preparation: optimizing benefit | Michelle Williams, MBChB, PhD, FSCCT
11:25 - 11:40 | Management decisions after an abnormal CCTA | Paul Knaapen, MD
11:40 - 11:55 | Guidance of revascularization procedures | Maksymilian Opolski, MD, PhD
11:55 - 12:10 | CCTA after revascularization, new technology, new hope? | Filippo Cademartiri, MD, PhD
12:10 -12:25 | Suspected ACS: Old data vs. current reality | Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, MSCCT
12:25 - 12:40 | Q & A

 
12:40 - 13:25 CET
Lunch and poster viewing in Exhibit Hall
 
13:25 - 14:10 CET
Sponsored symposium | HeartFlow

Lesion-specific physiology + quantified plaque to inform decision-making
Speakers: Alexander Hirsch, MD, PhD and Kristian Tækker Madsen, MD, PhD
Moderator: Jonathon Leipsic, MD, FRCPC, MSCCT

 
14:10 - 15:40 CET
New technology, how does it work and what is it good for? | Chairs: Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, MSCCT and Ron Blankstein, MD, MSCCT
14:10 - 14:25 | Photon-counting CT | Pál Maurovich-Horvat, MD, PhD, MPH, FSCCT
 14:25 - 14:40 | Spectral imaging | Sara Boccalini, MD, PhD
14:40 - 14:55 | Extra-cellular volume imaging | Francesca Pugliese, MD, PhD, FSCCT
14:55 - 15:10 | CT strain imaging | Bálint Szilveszter, MD, PhD
15:10 - 15:25 | Radiomics | Damini Dey, PhD, FSCCT
15:25 - 15:40 | Q & A
 
15:40 - 16:10 CET
Coffee break and poster viewing in Exhibit Hall
16:10 - 17:40 CET
Rare & refined cases | Chairs: Maarten Jan Cramer, MD, PhD and Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD
16:10 - 16:20 | Presenter | Casper Mihl, MD , PhD
16:20 - 16:30 | Presenter | Samuel Beke, MD
16:30 - 16:40 | Presenter | Khibar Salah, MD, PhD
16:40 - 16:50 | Presenter | Thomas Semple, MDres, FRCR, MBBS, BSc
16:50 - 17:00 | Presenter | R. Nils Planken, MD, PhD
17:00 - 17:10 | Presenter | Rodrigo Salgado, MD, PhD
17:10 - 17:40 | Q & A
17:40 - 17:50 CET
Closing Remarks | Chairs: Koen Nieman, MD, PhD, MSCCT and Paul Knaapen, MD
 
17:50 - 19:00 CET
Reception in Exhibit Hall
19:00 CET
Adjourn
 
8:00 - 8:55 CET
Industry Session: Cutting Edge CT Technologies | Chairs: Eric Williamson, MD, MSCCT and Koen Nieman, MD, PhD, MSCCT
8:00 - 8:10 | HeartFlow: How quantitative coronary plaque data informs patient care | Johan de Mey, MD, PhD
8:10 - 8:20 | Circle Cardiovascular Imaging: Step into the fast lane: Outpace the old algorithms with Next-Gen AI | Scott Galbari
8:20 - 8:30 | Philips: Advantages of spectral CT in cardiac imaging | Niels van der Werf, PhD
8:30 - 8:40 | Siemens Healthineers AG: The NAEOTOM Alpha Class. Unstoppable | Vishal Karpatri, MD
8:40 - 8:50 | Keya Medical: AI in CTFFR analysis | Irfan Shafique, MD

 
9:00 - 10:15 CET
Atherosclerosis imaging | Chairs: Ron Blankstein, MD, MSCCT; Bjarne Nørgaard, MD, PhD, DMSc and Michelle Williams, MBChB, PhD, FSCCT
9:00 - 9:12 | Is there a role for CT in primary cardiovascular screening in Europe | Pim van der Harst, MD, PhD
9:12 - 9:24 | Plaque-based risk prediction in symptomatic patients | Alexander van Rosendael, MD, PhD
9:24 - 9:36 | Vulnerable plaque detection: Really? | Pál Maurovich-Horvat, MD, PhD, MPH, FSCCT
9:36 - 9:48 | Lessons learned from serial plaque imaging studies | Jeroen Bax, MD, PhD
9:48 - 10:00 | CT-guided therapy of atherosclerotic disease | Nick Nurmohamed, MD
10:00 - 10:15 | Q & A
 
10:15 - 11:00 CET
Coffee break and poster viewing in Exhibit Hall
11:00 - 12:15 CET
Surgical, structural and other cardiac CT application | Chairs: Jonathon Leipsic, MD, MSCCT
11:00 -11:15 | Endocarditis | Gudrun Feuchtner, MD, Ao Prof
11:15 - 11:30 | Complications after TAVR | Jonathon Leipsic, MD, MSCCT
11:30 - 11:45 | Pre-TMVR: What to measure and how? | Jonathan Weir-McCall, MBChB, PhD, FSCCT
11:45 - 12:00 | Atrial appendage occluders: Before and after the procedure | Prabhakar Rajiah, MD, FSCCT
12:00 - 12:15 | Coronary surveillance after heart transplantation | Olivier Manintveld, MD, PhD

12:20 - 12:50 CET
Rapid fire abstract presentations | Chairs: Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD, MCR, MSCCT and Armin Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH, MSCCT
12:20 - 12:26 | Prognostic Comparison Of Coronary Calcium Score And CCTA-derived Plaque Burden In Symptomatic Patients | Jorge Dahdal, MD
12:26 - 12:32 | The Time-varying Prognostic Value Of Stenosis And Plaque Burden In Coronary Artery Disease | Roel Hoek, MD
12:32 - 12:38 | FFRCT Derived Coronary Physiological Pattern And Graft Patency In The FASTTRACK CABG Trial | Tsung Ying Tsai, MD
12:38 - 12:44 | Comparison Of Transesophageal Echocardiography And Computed Tomography In The Evaluation Of Surgical Repairability Of The Aortic Valve | Carlos Collado Macian, MD
12:44 - 12:50 | Quantification Of Extracellular Volume In Acute Myocarditis Using Dual-source Photon-counting Detector CT: A Comparative Analysis With CMR | Benjamin Longère, MD, PhD
 
12:50 - 13:35 CET
Lunch and poster viewing in Exhibit Hall
13:35 - 14:20 CET
Sponsored symposium | Circle Cardiovascular Imaging

Valve conversations: Engaging insights into the evolving landscape of structural heart health
Speakers: Timothy Fairbairn, MBChB, FRCP, PhD and Marco Guglielmo, MD, FSCCT
Moderator: Jonathon Leipsic, MD, FRCPC, MSCCT

 
14:20 - 15:50 CET
Master debates | Chairs: Ed Nicol, MD, MBA, MSCCT and Paul Knaapen, MD
14:20 - 14:50 | Debate #1: Plaque is more relevant than ischemia in symptomatic patients |
Pro: Leslee Shaw, PhD, MSCCT |  Con: Juhani Knuuti, MD, PhD
14:50 - 15:20 | Debate #2: CCTA is also great in patients with a high CAD probability |
Pro: Jonathon Leipsic, MD, MSCCT | Con: David Newby, MD, PhD
15:20 - 15:50 | Debate #3: CT myocardial characterization by ECV is just as good as MRI | 
Pro: Tom Treibel, MBBS, PhD | Con: Birgitta Velthuis, MD, PhD
15:50 - 16:00 CET
Coffee break and poster viewing in Exhibit Hall
16:00 - 17:15 CET
Farewell session | Chairs: Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, MD, PhD and Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD, MCR, MSCCT
16:00 - 16:20 | Future of cardiac CT: Technology | Eric Williamson, MD, MSCCT
16:20 - 16:40 | Future of cardiac CT: Clinical | Bjarne Nørgaard, MD, PhD, DMSc
16:40 - 17:00 | Future of cardiac imaging beyond CT | Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, MD, PhD
17:00 - 17:15 | Closing remarks | Koen Nieman, MD, PhD, MSCCT and Paul Knaapen, MD
17:15 CET
Meeting Adjourned
 
 
 
Program is subject to change